Hardback book `The Kingdom of MacBrayne` by Nick S. Robins and Donald E. Meek.
The history of MacBrayne`s steamers and ferries in the West Highlands and Hebrides from 1820 to 2005.
2007.41.8
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2006.103.1
Extract from the Tyree Kirk Session Book of 1827
Transcription of an extract from the Tyree Kirk Session Book of 1827.
In this extract from the Tiree Kirk Session Book, a widow in Kilmoluaig complained that a neighbour was alleging to have had sexual relations with her. After interrogating both parties, the Session decided not to take the oath of either of them, one of whom was lying and would be condemned to damnation.
Instead the Session fined the neighbour the standard amount of £1 13s 4d for lapsing twice in fornication. However, it would seem that they believed the widow’s account of events as they did not fine her but referred her to the civil courts for damages.
Not all cases of fornication brought before the Session were disputed. Some freely confessed their guilt and ‘promised to yield obedience to the Laws of the Church’.
2006.74.1
Hardback book `Toils, Tears & Triumph` edited by Wanita Hollands Fletcher and Isabelle Munro.
A history of Kincardine Township, Ontario ordered by concessions and lots, with photographs.
2006.55.2
Book `Tiverton Baptist Church 1855-1995` by Ruth Dimmick.
A history of a 140 years of ministry at Tiverton Baptist Chucrh in Ontario.
2006.43.1
Family tree of the descendants of John Stewart of Cornaigbeg.
Family tree of the descendants of John Stewart of Cornaigbeg, b. 1776, some of whose descendants emigrated to Canada in the early 1900s and setlled in Prince Edward Island.
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2005.167.1
Paperback book `Argyll 1730-1850` by Robert A. A. McGeachy.
A systematic account of what happened in Argyll between 1730 and 1850 when the county`s old social and agricultural order was overturned by its landowners.
2005.164.1
Paperback book `The Making of the Crofting Community` by James Hunter.
Account of the events which shaped the modern Highlands.
2005.157.1
Paperback book `Morvern Transformed` by Philip Gaskell.
A study of the social and economic change in the Highland Parish of Moervern in the 19th century.
De-accessioned 26.2.2026.
2005.64.1
Population statistics for Tiree 1747-2001
Transcription of the population statistics for Tiree 1747-2001.
The population of Tiree during the Iron Age (600 BC – 400 AD) has been estimated to have been around a thousand. During the Middle Ages the number of islanders probably remained fairly constant.
At the end of the 18th century the population soared due to smallpox vaccination, the introduction of potatoes and the sudden wealth produced by the kelp industry. It continued to increase by around five hundred per decade until the potato blight hit the island in1846. There was enormous distress and a surge in emigration.
The sustained decline in numbers continued throughout the 20th century as islanders left for Glasgow and other mainland destinations. The 2001 census, however, shows a modest increase in population.
2005.49.1
Mini-disk recording of a talk Rev. Bob Higham held in the Rural Centre on 31/3/2005.
Talk by the Rev. Robert Higham held in the Rural Centre on 30th March 2005 about Tiree’s Christian heritage from St. Columba to the present day.